From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Friday, November 17, 2023 at 4:05:26 AM UTC-6, Mark Brader wrote:   
       
   > ** Game 4, Round 9 - Literature - Pseudonyms    
   >    
   > In each case, you must give the name that the author is best    
   > known by today. This may be their real name or a pseudonym, and    
   > you have to give it in the form that's usually used, *including    
   > given names or initials* as applicable.    
   >    
   > 1. These sisters' first books were published under the pseudonyms    
   > Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, but it's their real names that    
   > they're known by today. Name *any one* of them.    
      
   Emily Bronte   
      
   > 2. This author's name at birth was Howard O'Brien. She has used    
   > several pseudonyms but is best known today by one. Name it.    
      
   Anne Rice   
      
   > 3. This writer used many pseudonyms, including Silence Dogood,    
   > Martha Careful, and Richard Saunders, but is now remembered    
   > under his real name. What name?    
      
   Benjamin Franklin   
      
   > 4. This author's real name was Mary Ann Evans, but she used a    
   > pseudonym for all seven of her novels. Name it.    
      
   George Eliot   
       
   > 5. This author used the pseudonym Boz ["boze"] for some of his    
   > early writing, but his best-known works were published under    
   > his real name. What's that?    
      
   Charles Dickens   
      
   > 6. When David Cornwell started writing, he had to use this    
   > pseudonym because he was actually working in the field that he    
   > was writing about.    
      
   John Le Carre   
      
   > 7. Eric Blair is the real name of this writer whose pseudonym was    
   > inspired by a river he used to live near.    
      
   George Orwell   
      
   > 8. This author wrote several books under the name Richard Bachman    
   > while other novels were also appearing under his own name.    
   > Once this became public, it was stated that Bachman had died from    
   > "cancer of the pseudonym".    
      
   Stephen King   
      
   > 9. This author used his real name, Charles Dodgson, for his    
   > professional writing about math. He is now better known to    
   > most people by what pseudonym?    
      
   Lewis Carroll   
      
   > 10. This author is best known by a slight variation on her real    
   > name, but she uses the pseudonym Robert Galbraith for a series    
   > of novels featuring a private detective named Cormoran Strike.    
   > What, then, is her better-known name?    
      
   J.K. Rowling   
      
   > ** Game 4, Round 10 - Entertainment Challenge Round - Movies    
   >    
   > In each case name the movie.    
   >    
   > * A. Legal Movies    
   >    
   > A1. This movie contains the line "What's a yout?"    
      
   "My Cousin Vinny"   
       
   > A2. A young boy witnesses the suicide of a Mafia lawyer,    
   > and a prosecutor tries to use him to take down a mob family.    
   > The boy hires an attorney to protect him.    
      
   "The Client"   
      
   > * B. War Movies    
   >    
   > B1. An American destroyer engages in a battle of wits with a    
   > German U-boat.    
      
   "Das Boot"   
      
   > B2. This movie tells the story of the liberation of Paris during    
   > World War II.    
      
   "Is Paris Burning?"   
      
   > * C. Satires    
   >    
   > C1. A small country declares war on the US in order to qualify    
   > for foreign aid.    
      
   "The Mouse That Roared"   
      
   > C2. A US Air Force general goes insane and attacks the Soviet    
   > Union.    
      
   "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"   
      
   > * D. Other Comedies    
   >    
   > D1. A TV reporter lives the same day over and over.    
      
   "Groundhog Day"   
      
   > D2. A documentary-style movie about a British rock group's tour    
   > of the US.    
      
   "This Is Spinal Tap"   
      
   > * E. Dramas    
   >    
   > E1. A former soldier of fortune meets his lost love in North    
   > Africa.    
      
   "Casablanca"   
      
   > E2. A down-on-his-luck screenwriter becomes the kept man of a    
   > silent-movie star.    
      
   "Sunset Blvd."   
      
   > * F. Suspense    
   >    
   > F1. A writer comes to postwar Vienna to meet up with an old    
   > friend who, it turns out, is now a black-marketeer.    
      
   "The Third Man"   
      
   > F2. Mistaken for a spy, an ad executive must find a man who    
   > doesn't exist.    
      
   "North by Northwest"   
   (Note: That's close to what Rob Reiner's worst-reviewed film would have been   
   called had it been written by one of Kim Kardashian's children.)   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
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